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Lifetime membership card No. 103 for Ruth Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive lent the painted triptych, "The Divine Comedy" to the first retrospective exhibition of Laffoley's paintings. This work is illustrated in the fold out pages and mentioned in the essay of Jeanne Marie Wasilik. J.W. Mahoney discussed the photographically reproduced serigraph, "The Alchemy of Breathing." The original drawing of this work was commissioned for the '"Beauty of Breathing" exhibition and is held by the Sackner Archive. Paul Laffoley contributed an insightful autobiographical essay in which he writes about his current project on the Pantheon. He also made collages expressly for illustrating this catalogue. Each of the paintings reproduced in the catalogue has an in depth comment by the Loffoley. The exhibition was curated by Elizabeth Ferrer, Director of the Austin Museum of Art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The material for each print in the book or project is stored in individual folders or envelopes. Material is also included that was not utilized in the final version of the book. For example, in the print, On the Corner..., the typed poem was considered but rejected, e.g., die neue SS: Lightening bilts shaved in - black on black - in the Razored and Jerrocombed hair - in the Razored and Jerrocombed hair. The title page content and layout changed considerably over the five years it took to produce the book. A section contains poems that were not used in the final version of this book. The Sackners provided financial support for this project. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Sackners are listed in the article by Allen Kurzweil's "America's Top 100 Collectors," a tribute to the most active, passionate collectors in the country. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Ruth and Marvin Sackner are listed among "America's Top 100 Collectors" as collectors of art with text and artists' books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Tom Austin wrote an essay, "The Power of the Pen," in which he describes the Sackner Archive as the world's largest privately held collection of text art. The essay is illustrated with eight colored photographs by Chris Little. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Kaelen Wilson-Goldie contributes an essay, "The Rematerialization of Artists' Books" in which she mentions the Sackner Archive as the largest collection of artworks that blend text and image in private hands. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Baroni notes that the first 5 issues were Assemblings. Thereafter, several issues were written solely by Baroni. He mentions the Sackner Archive as having a complete collection of Arte Postale. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Marvin Sackner reviewed the book and wrote a blurb for the dust jacket. Betty Bright is a co-founder and curator of the Minneapolis Center for Book Arts who was responsible for over 50 exhibitions in a nine year-period. She has written a book on artist books that removes the chaos from the many flavors of this genre. Her analysis is confined almost exclusively to British and American writers and artists. She discusses artist books chronologically based upon the classification of the fine press book, deluxe book, bookwork, sculptural books and hybrids She begins the journey with the books by William Morris of the English Arts and Crafts movement in the late nineteenth century. She mentions that Morris was preoccupied with the design of the book because he believed that such books should not only tell a story but cause the reader to enter into a new world, a remark that seems apropos to the artist book today. Along the way, she cites exhibitions and catalogues, some well known and...

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This catalogue is a retrospective of Kocman's Artists' Books and Papers. Jiri Valoch contributed a critical essay that traced the interdisciplinary art movements of the 1970's, the European political and artistic community in which Kocman worked, and his studies in bookbinding and aesthetics. He describes Kocman's work as "a synthesis combining intellectual detachment informed by his conceptual experience with a remarkable sensibility and strong lyricism and with a continuous questioning of the nature of art." Several examples of Kocman's works are held by the Sackner Archive. For example, the catalogue depicts a reproduction of Poe's "The Raven," one of Kocman's paper re-making books that is held by the Sackner Archive. The catalogue lists "The Metamorphosis" by Kafka (1980) and Fragment of Videvdat and Other Fragments (1988), as well as several editioned books held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner ARchive catalog printed in 1984 is listed at 1250 pounds equivqlent to $1250.The end papers are computer printouts from Kein Fehler Im System. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Krystyna Wasserman curated the exhibition and wrote an introductory essay. The Sackner Archive lent "La Prose du Transsiberien et de la Petitie Jehanne de France" by Sonya Delaunay and Blaise Cendrars. The books are illustrated on the right facing pages and each artist wrote a personal explanation of her work on the left facing page. Sandra Jackman, one of the contributing artists, provided a travel notebook from her journey to the middle east. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Austin writes that "by turning their home into a museum, collectors Ruth and Marvin Sackner have made concrete and visual poetry more like household words." The article and interview concisely defines and describes the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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It is stated that this edition was sponsored by Ruth and Marvin Sackner. Biro recounts a tour through the far east with poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Underground In contemporary society this is a wider concept applied to social stratification. It usually refers to groups less educated and less classified than the civil majority and their mainstream establishments, which function 'beneath' or independently of the latter. Related words include 'parallel or alternative societies/layers', 'second publicity', 'resistance', 'opposition', 'subculture', etc. Henceforth I shall mostly refer to the artistic underground, which I understand, on the one hand, as artistic community which is excluded from art organizations and the art business and hence is often relegated to social insecurity, and, on the other, as the artistically interested layers of intellectuals, students or sympathizers In special cases (such as in an era of political repression) professional artists may also belong to the artistic underground. Another frequent occurrence has been that representatives of the art establishment freely choose to move towards the underground,...

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This is a sumptiously colored illustrated book on 40 book collectors and the way they live with and care for their books in their residences. The Sackners and Micky Wolfson collections are described in a section of the book entitled, "The Grand Passion." The collections of the Harris', Richard Minsky, and Michele Oka Doner are described in a section entitled, "Beautiful Bookscapes." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This review of Personal Choice: Selections from Four Alumni Collections states that "the Sackner section, installed on the second floor of the ICA, is the most intellectually challenging part of the show." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.